Book Endorsements
“A clever merger between medicine and spirituality, PEACE WITH CANCER, provides a powerful process for working with chronic illnesses such as cancer. Along the lines of Shelley Taylor’s POSITIVE ILLUSIONS, Eshowsky’s book guides the reader to exploration of ways to cope with cancer that lie beyond traditional psychological cognitive/behavioral approaches. Working with imagery via shamanic journeying continues to be the central factor in my success in re-thinking and re-feeling life with chronic illness. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1997 and realized five years later that even though my diagnosis changed to idiopathic autoimmune disorder, daily life had greatly deteriorated. Certainly my professional studies and work in psychology, over thirty years, provided a wealth of information useful in dealing with the massive changes chronic illness brought to my life. But I have to credit shamanic practice, the techniques described in this book, as having the biggest effect in my life.
I remain a skeptic but no matter how
it is worded, imagery work has proven very powerful for myself and as my
research shows, valuable in innumerable
ways, from personal growth to community development. In agreement with Humanistic
and Positive Psychology, I have found a strength based approach to the injected
uncertainty of chronic illness to be the most uplifting and in the end, evoking
the most resilience.”
Kimberly A. McCarthy, Ph.D.,M.M.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia College
“Myron Eshowsky’s teachings about healing work with cancer were instrumental in helping me assist others with this frightening disease. As I now face this illness in my own life, the book offers recognition of how the gifts this illness may bring if we can find a way to stop our internal and often unconscious war against our own soul. Cancer is the only winner in that war. We do not need to give up any of our efforts to stay alive. This book offers wise counsel and methods for making an internal peace that lets our bodies and souls heal quietly from within.”
Jonathan W. Mills, Ph.D.
Shamanic Practitioner and author of “A Good Friday in Oz” and other healing stories